Re: Administrivia: Binary Executables w/o Source

[Andreas Gietl <a.gietl () e-admin de>]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 00:26, Drew Copley wrote:

I think it may not be a good idea to send binaries to the list, because lot of 
companies run antivirus-gateways at their smtp-server and would reject the 
message, so the recipient would be cut off the information. Today sb sent a 
copy of the Win32/Nachi-Worm - as  i requested - to the list. I got about 20 
mails from av-mail-gateways. I did not expect to get the virus on - the - 
list and especially not sent via mail. Next time i gonna state that in my 
mail - i apologize for the Inconvenience todays nachi may have caused to you.

> If anybody is stupid enough to run a binary file from here they deserve
> any negative consequences which may result from that.
>
> Okay, I know other people are thinking that because it is just so true.
>
> This said, someone sent a copy of this lastest fixer msblast variant. I
> appreciated that. But, proper netiquette says to not send binaries nor
> pictures to internet lists (newsgroups or mailing lists). It is best to
> send by url, such urls are very valuable.
>
> (Personally, I have never cared about binaries nor pictures being sent
> as long as their size were small... It is just html email which I hate.)


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